Asynchronous request to the server from background thread

Question

I\'ve got the problem when I tried to do asynchronous requests to server from background thread. I\'ve never got results of those requests. Simple example which shows the pr

Answer 1

Yes, the thread is exiting. You can see this by adding:

-(void)threadDone:(NSNotification*)arg
{
    NSLog(@"Thread exiting");
}

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(threadDone:)
                                             name:NSThreadWillExitNotification
                                           object:nil];

You can keep the thread from exiting with:

-(void) downloadImage
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    [self downloadImage:urlString];

    CFRunLoopRun(); // Avoid thread exiting
    [pool release];
}

However, this means the thread will never exit. So you need to stop it when you're done.

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection
{
    CFRunLoopStop(CFRunLoopGetCurrent());
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
    CFRunLoopStop(CFRunLoopGetCurrent());
}

Learn more about Run Loops in the Threading Guide and RunLoop Reference.